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Roman Catholicism has a larger communion and so naturally it teaches it's communicants to be more tolerant of their brothers.

Protestantism encouraged local Churches, independent congregations and isolated autonomy rather than an international episcopal ecclesiology. The more isolated you are religiously, the easier it is to have prejudice against those who are far off. (That is a strictly religious comment, I'm not for open borders and the flooding of migrants to replace white people). That being said, not all protestants are like that. In fact, Protestantism has basically laid claim to both the most extreme forms of conservatism and liberalism since the reformation. Faggotry has become accepted thanks to the liberal wing of Protestantism and yet racism was safe-guarded by it's most conservative wings as well.

So basically, the larger the communion--the less racism. At least, that's my experience. I'm an Anglican so I kind of exist in a world between prots/Rome.... our communion is the third largest and we tend to not have much trouble with racism.

>>5680654>Yes OK, but /meds/ could have become racist themselves and valued /med/ features over everything. But they didn't. It's only /nords/ who have this obsession. Why?Don't misunderstand, Catholics have definitely embraced racial bigotry and muh pure white race style thought, usually when they were imperializing other nations. The real difference you could say is that White Catholics were into subjugating other races rather than destroying/removing them, and IIRC no Catholic country has ever viewed miscegenation as a bad thing.

Also, this isn't something I've studied in depth, but the Catholic Church in America was notorious for racial prejudice, prioritizing Irish Catholics above Italians, Italians above Hispanics, and Hispanics above Blacks. But that just might be general American race autism corrupting them.

Hell? It comes with the pangs of death. A pain that visits he who has lived a life of pious service to the false god, believing in his ignorance, that he shall be delivered from it. Hell is the realization. It is the finality of the thing. The last agonizing moment wherein the believer is faced with the interminable reality. "I am going to die. Life, this precious thing that I had, I gave to death." Hell is the inescapable regret the superstitious.

>>5679737>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago#Criticism>Natalya Reshetovskaya, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's first wife, wrote in her memoirs that The Gulag Archipelago was based on "campfire folklore" as opposed to objective facts. She wrote that she was "perplexed" that the Western media had accepted The Gulag Archipelago as "the solemn, ultimate truth", saying that its significance had been "overestimated and wrongly appraised". She said that her husband did not regard the work as "historical research, or scientific research", and added that The Gulag Archipelago was a collection of "camp folklore", containing "raw material" which her husband was planning to use in his future productions.

>>5679915Gulags were by definition a penal system, however bad they were, and the US prison system has next to none of the legitimacy or clarity of purpose you're ascribing to it. It's a ravenous black whole of injustice that has destroyed lives by the millions, often for petty or harmless crimes, or for convictions that would never have been made in a reasonable trial.

If your contention is that the soviets were imprisoning many people who ought not to be imprisoned, which is true, and that the US does not do this to a comparable degree, that makes the US look very bad. It means that the US penal system is so illegitimate and broken, is such a failure, that despite filling their prisons by a large majority with people who deserve to be there, it has a far higher percentage of its population behind bars than the nation that was imprisoning people who were actual threats AND many many innocents.

Now that's not true. The reality is that a very large fraction of the US prison population should not be behind bars, but then we're back around to the US prison system also being a crime against humanity,

>>5678690Anyone care to give their 2 cents or a bonafide anthropologic explanation on why the bionicles derived their power from masks of all things? Is there a culture either in polynesia or elsewhere where masks are actually thought to give you special powers of some sort?

well, blacks were second class citizens for a long ass time, as a result most leaders and important figures were not black, nothing to do about thatand if we're talking about non-american history then well, Europe dominated the world up until WWII, while Africa limped along doing their own thing, until the Europeans beat malaria and promptly conquered the entire continent not really their fault there's just a lot more interesting things to learn about europeans than africans

Is this the most horrendously Bastardized song in history?Originally a Polish Nationalist Revolutionary song in the mid 19th Century but was later used and twisted into a socialist song, removing all mentions of Poland and the struggle for National Sovereignty replacing it with 'red flag' over the Polish flag.It is a wonderful song, which is mostly why it became so popular and many countries had their iterations.Sadly, the latter is recognized a lot more than the former.

>>5680655The song you posted is what I meant by the subversion.It was changed into a Socialist song in 1905 when the independence movement got subverted into a socialist movement. It was also mostly why it failed because most people were split between the two with some people in between.

The song I was referring to specifically was from 1831.And I never said that the Russians or whatever 'stole' the song. It was Polish communists